Sewing implement.



PATENTED DEC. 25. 1906.

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SEWING IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 25, 1906 duplication filed May 12, 1906. Serial No. 316,566

To In whom, it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JAsPna N. HILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bluecreek, in the county of Kanawha and State of West Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sewing Implements, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sewing implements, the object of the invention being to provide a hand-operated implement or tool adapted for the uses of shoemakers and mechanics generally for the purpose of sewing or passing stitches back and forth through leather or fabric of any kind, the construction hereinafter particularly described enabling the workman to form the stitches with reater facility and speed than has been possible with other devices of a similar kind heretofore devised.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a sewing implement embodying the present invention,

showing the needles thrust outward. Fig. 2 is a similar view showlng the needles drawn inward. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1 Fig. 4- is a cross-section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the shell or tubular body.

The sewing implement contemplated in this invention comprises, essentially, an outer shell or tubular casing 1, which is closed at the inner end with a base-cap 2, threaded thereon and provided at the opposite end with a head 3, which is screwed upon that end of the shell or casing 1, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The head 3 is provided with a guide-opening 4, through which works a pair of needles 5 and 6, 5 designating a punching-needle or awl and 6 a stitching-needle or looper, the latter being provided with a backwardly-inclined hook 7 to catch the thread and draw the same through the opening previously formed by the punching-needle or awl 5.

The needles, each of which is half-cylindrical in cross-section, are connected at their inner ends to the needle-carrier 8, (shown in Figs. 1 and 2,) the said needle-carrier being provided with an inwardly-extending socket 10, in which the heel ends or butts of the needles are received, as shown in Figs. 1. and 2,

the needles being held fixedly in the socket 10 by means of a retainer in the form of a setscrew 11. (Best illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3.)

The outer shell or casing 1 is provided with a longitudinal siot 14, in which works a loop or bail-shaped handle 15, which has one end thereof bent, as shown at 16, and inserted through the longitudinal portion 17 of a bayonet-slot formed in the needle-carrier, as shown in Figs. 1 and 6, the bent end of the handle15 being secured rigidly to the needlecarrier, as shown at 18. The handle is bent into substantially semicircular shape to give a spring action or resiliency to the opposite end thereof, which is left free and provided with an L-shaped or angular terminal portion 19, forming a spring-catch, the extremity of the catch 19 being adapted to engage in a catchhole 21 in the outer shell or casing 1 for the purpose of holding the needle-carrier in its outermost positionthat is to say, with the needles thereof projecting as shown in Fig. 1. By thus locking the needles in their outward positions they may be driven through leather or other fabric, the awl or punching-needle 5 formin a hole for the looper-needle in the succee ingstep of the operation of sewing. In other words, the needle 6 is always inserted in a hole previously formed by the punchingneedle or awl 5, and after bein inserted through the hole the thread upon t 1e farther side of the fabric is caught under the barb 7 of the needle 6, so that when the implement as a whole is withdrawn the thread is carried three 11 the hole thereby, after which the threa on the adjacent side of the fabric is passed through the loop drawn through the ole by the barb 7. The operation described is continued and the stitches locked in the manner described until the work is completed.

1. The combination with a tubular casing and a head therefor provided with a needlehole, of a needle-carrier mounted to reciprocate in said casing and provided with a needlesocket, needles removably fitted in said socket and working through the hole in the head, a handle for reciprocating the needlecarrier, and means for locking said carrier at one end of its throw.

2. The combination with a tubular casing or shell, and a head therefor provided with a needle-hole, of a needle-carrier mounted to reciprocate within said shell and provided with a needle-holding socket, needles having their inner ends 'iitted in said socket and held by a set-screw on the carrier, and means for reciprocating the needle-carrier and locking the same at one end of its throw.

3. The eomhinatioi'i with a tubular easing or shell, and a head therelor provided. with a needle-hole, of a needle-carrier in the form of a cylinder mounted toreeiprocate in said hole and provided at oneend with an inwardly-extending needle-socket, needles having, their inner ends fitted in said socket, a needle-11 tainer, and means for reeiproeating the necdle-holder and locking; the same at one end oi its throw.

4. The combination with an outer casing or shell, and a head. therefor provided with. a

needle-hole, of a needle-earrier mounted. to reciprocate in said shell and consisting oi' a cylindrical body provided with a needlesocket in one end adapted to receive and. retain the inner ends of a pair of needles, and a handle connected to said needle-carrier and projeeting outward through and working in a slot in the outer shell, said handle having one end free and provided with a eateh adapted to engage a hole in the outer shell to loek the nemlle-earrier at one end of its throw.

5. The combinatioi'i with a hollow handle or shell, and ahead at one end thereof provided with a needle-hole, of a nmalle-earrier mounted within the handle, means for reciprocating said nmidle-earrier, and a pair of needles having their .inner ends detaehably eonneeted to the carrier, one of said needles eonstituting an awl or punch and the other needle being provided with a loop-Forming barb, substantially as described.

in testimony whereof I adix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JASPER N. llllili.

\Vitnesses:

A. 8. PRICE, W. A. LYNcn. 

